70 years ago today
/The Hindenburg Disaster
803.8 feet in length and 135.1 feet in diameter, almost as long as the Titanic, the German passenger airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the largest aircraft ever to fly. The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zeppelin, pioneered the first transatlantic air service, carrying hundreds of passengers and travelling thousands of miles before being destroyed in a tragic fire on May 6, 1937 at NAS Lakehurst.
In less than a minute the giant airship was completely destroyed in a fire that killed a third of its crew and passengers and left spectators crying in horror.
On the ground a radio reporter named Herbert Morrison was covering the airship's arrival. His emotional commentary on that evening is a legendary piece of reportage. 'Oh, the humanity'.
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803.8 feet in length and 135.1 feet in diameter, almost as long as the Titanic, the German passenger airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the largest aircraft ever to fly. The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zeppelin, pioneered the first transatlantic air service, carrying hundreds of passengers and travelling thousands of miles before being destroyed in a tragic fire on May 6, 1937 at NAS Lakehurst.
In less than a minute the giant airship was completely destroyed in a fire that killed a third of its crew and passengers and left spectators crying in horror.
On the ground a radio reporter named Herbert Morrison was covering the airship's arrival. His emotional commentary on that evening is a legendary piece of reportage. 'Oh, the humanity'.
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